Humphrey Barclay BEM was born on 24 March 1941 and is a British comedy executive and producer.
11 Facts About Humphrey Barclay
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Humphrey Barclay then appeared in Cambridge Footlights revues alongside Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, David Hatch, Jonathan Lynn, Jo Kendall and Miriam Margolyes.
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Humphrey Barclay was offered a job as a BBC radio producer and soon afterwards put together the team who performed the comedy show I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again.
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Humphrey Barclay said at the time that he thought there might be a series in the characters.
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Humphrey Barclay became Head of Comedy at LWT in 1977 and supervised successful series, including No, Honestly and A Fine Romance.
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In 2000, Humphrey Barclay was adopted into the royal family of Tafo, a village which is a three-hour drive north-west of Accra in the Kwahu region of Ghana, while there to attend the funeral of his friend, the actor Christopher Asante.
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Humphrey Barclay is active in helping to raise funds for the community, which has had unemployment levels of more than 80 per cent.
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Humphrey Barclay has teamed up with Ikando Volunteers to help provide skilled volunteers to the community.
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Humphrey Barclay is in the line of descent of the Barclays of Mather and Urie, a Scottish lairdship.
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Humphrey Barclay is a descendant of David Barclay of Youngsbury, a Quaker banker who famously manumitted all of the slaves he acquired in English Jamaica as the result of a debt.
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In 2016, through an introduction via Verene Shepherd, the Jamaican historian of diaspora studies, Humphrey Barclay met with a distinguished African American descendant of one of the slaves freed by his ancestor.